CFP: Early 20th C.: New Women and the "White Nation" (3/25/03; PAMLA, 11/7/03-11/9/03)

Call for Papers:
New Women and the "White" Nation
PAMLA Annual Convention, November 7-9 2003
Scripts College, Clarement, CA

This panel asks how fiction and journalism's representations of the new
woman critically enable the consolidation of whiteness at the
turn-of-the-twentieth-century. Particularly of interest are papers which
explore how new womanhood (in all of its heterogeneous forms) both
coincides with and subverts white "race" preservation within and outside
of US borders. At the same time, papers which explore alternative
configurations of the new woman (such as found in the fiction of Harper,
Zitkala-=C5=A0a, Sui Sin Far and Winnifred Eaton as well as later writers)
are welcome, particularly those which explore how these alternative
representations imagine new national identifications for not-white,
not-middle-to-upper-class women Finally, this panel welcomes papers which
look at the usefulness of the new woman and modern girl typologies as
means of spreading "democracy" and US imperialism to those supposedly
"lesser" developed nations in the "East" during the first two decades of
the twentieth century.

500 word abstracts should be sent to Christine Leiren Mower (Leiren_at_aol.com).
Deadline for receipt of proposals: March 25, 2003

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